To get rid of the balloon tip that says “There are unused icons on your desktop” right click on your desktop -> Properties -> click the “Desktop” tab -> Customize Desktop -> uncheck “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days”Â€Â which can be found under the “General” tab.

Yes, you should, I suggest you back up all your important data right now, in many cases loud noise means that your hard drive is about to crash. Of course it may well last another year but better be safe than sorry.

Make sure that your sound card drivers are installed, most likely you have a “on-board” sound card, try installing the drivers from the CD that came with your motherboard or downloading them form the manufacturer website.

Once you have your drivers installed but your speakers are still not working double click on the speaker icon (bottom right on your screen, next to your computer clock) – if any of the “Mute” boxes is checked, uncheck it.

Things you need in order to be able to install a second hard-drive on your computer:

- you need to have an open bay for your new hard drive

- make sure that the ribbon cable can be plugged into your old and new hard drive

- power connector exists for the new hard drive

Installing the second hard drive:

Switch off the PC. Remove your old hard drive and set its jumpers so that it becomes “master”, look on top of the hard drive for the correct way for the jumpers, if you can’t find them there visit your hard drive manufacturer website.

Make your new hard drive “slave” – set the jumpers accordingly.

Insert the hard drives into the drive bays, attach the ribbon cable and the power cable to both of them.

Turn your PC on, once Windows loads, got to Windows Explorer or My Computer and find out if you can “see” the new hard drive. Try copying a few files from your old hard drive to the new one to make sure that everything is ok. If you have problems reboot your PC and go to your BIOS settings, you should see your old hard drive listed as “master” and the new one as “salve”. If the PC hasn’t detected the new hard drive setting correctly you should manually enter them.

If you need to copy only small file(s) use a flash drive – plug it in, copy the file(s) to it, unplug, plug it in in the second PC and copy the file(s) to your new hard drive. If you don’t have a flash drive you can use your digital camera or mp3 player exactly the same way (unless they are very odd or old model).

If you need to copy a lot of information then you should consider networking the two computers:

Using direct cable connection – you can use crossover cable to connect the two PCs (they both must have network adapters), for more info click the link below:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305621